Old School House
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163594
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163594
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Northleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SY1955095862
Details
SY19NE
1591/3/99
NORTHLEIGH
NORTHLEIGH
Old School House
GV
II
House, former school. Dated 1844, enlarged in 18 9 and cloakroom added in 1893; the school was closed in 1957 and converted to a private house. Local flint rubble laid to, rough courses is exposed on the front; the south-west side is plastered and lightly incised as ashlar (the front was probably similar originally); stone rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; slate roof, formerly thatch. PLAN : The school faces SE. The main block, built in 1844, is a single storey large room which was heated by a stove when it was a school; partitions were inserted in 1958 when it was converted into a house, the two rooms formed were heated from a lateral stack at the back and a gable end stack; in 1975 the partitions were removed. In 1879 the school was enlarged by building a 1-room plan infants' classroom at the back. In 1893 a front porch/ cloakroom was added and a lean-to store room built on the back of the infants' classroom. The main lock is 2 storeys, the rest is single storey.
EXTERIOR: originally the front had a symmetrical 3-window front arranged around a central arch-headed doorway. However the 1893 porch as built off centre affecting the symmetry .This now contains C20 French windows in the outer arch and the front doorway has its arch head blocked. The windows however are original; t ey have pointed arch heads and contain timber windows with Y -tracery (the ground floor ones! have thicker glazing bars). There is a Beerstone plaque alongside to right of the porch which is inscribed 'BUlLT AD 1844'. The roof is gable-ended. Now the front porch is used as a study and the main doorway is the late C19 one on the left (south-west) end; a plank door with overlight be d a C20 conservatory. In the right (north-east) end there is a 1879 window with brick pointed arch but not with Y -tracery. The rear extensions contain C20 casements, some with glazing bars, and lean-to to roofs. Interior: is largely the result of the 1958 renovation although there is still some 19 Joinery detail. Roof was not inspected. The School House was built on the site of the former parish Poor House. Sources: the owner, Mrs Jill Cooke, has researched the history of The School House and her work is published in 2 articles which also include much social history .(Jill Cooke; :Jill Cooke chronicles some Victorian Arrears of lgnorance', The Lady, 9 May 1986, pp. 1056- 57 .Jill Cooke; 'How to know Gentleman', Devon Life, September 1986 pp 82-3.)
Listing NGR: SY1955095862
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88769
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Lady in May 29, (1986), 1056-57
Cooke, J, Devon Life in September, (1986), 82-3
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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